Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1887-10-07
FACT AND FANCY.

President Cleveland does not frank his let
tiers
Canada's population is estimated at seven
millions.
There are sixty thousand colored Knights
Of Labor.
Twenty newspaper men win occupy seats In
the next congress.
Chinese woodchopp-rs are leaving the for
ests I'm the vicinity o, Lake Tahoe.
Electricity can travel :ss, 900 miles per sec.
ond under favorable circumstances.
1t is a common thing for women 10 carry
hods and mix mortar in Vienna, Austria.
The Spring Frogs" snd the "BloodynOuns"
are two colored base ball clubs Of Wilmington,
n. c.
There isa dog In 81. GATHERINGS, Ont, that
can climb a lamp-post as easily as squirrel
can tree.
young man who smokes cigarettes stands
no show OF obtaining admission u the naval
or military academy.
Eighteen Alpine tourists are reported this
season TO have slipped or the mountain
side and lost their lives
BY the explosion Of a wine tank al De Turks
/ WlDctY, AT cshlt host' Ndls, lc'chhef Sh1
thousand gallons Of wine were destroyed
1t is said resident OF Grass Valley, Cal,
can only get out Of the place by passing over
a toll-road or ascending the golden stairs,
The streets OF vicksburg Miss, have been
lettered aud the houses numbered. The new
water-works will be in operation By Dec. /.
lady found go gold piece in the streets
II Woodland, Cal, one dN recently, invested
ii In a lot, and in two weeks realized 81. 90.
At Walla Wans, Washington territory, a
physician was bitten the other day by po.s-
onous dy, and his arm and neck are fearfully
swollen.
New York has a tax on inhertances-a very
easy tax TO pay. Within the last two years it
has paid over IS, 900, 90 into the treasury Of
the state.
The Washington and Idaho Fair association
offer about s. 0oO in premiums to be dstribu
ted among the lucky ones at their first annual
exhibition.
Paris, where csrlcsture has reached ito high
est and lowest development is TO havs an ex-
hibiion of comic Art from the beginning OF
the century TO the present time.
The flag that fosted over the Marshall house
/ In AleXariris, Va, in 1851, and was indirectly
the cause of the death OF Jackson AMI Els
worth, il now in the state capitol at Albany
y. Y
The big tunnel near Rob.nson's ferry on the
( Stsnislsus river, California will be completed
/ in few days, and then the river will be turn
ed into it. An imm harvest Of gold is ex-
/ pected.
During the past seven months Gov. Gordon,
Of Georgia, has received six hundred applica-
| tions for pardon. There Is possibility that the
/ next legislature will sppsint q board Of par
/ dsns 10 relieve tn. ssv.rnsr.
Small Boy (st charsh picnic)-I say, John
nv, where's them ncs ham ssnwiches your
ina put up fer ysul Thess Amt no cool.
JENNY (.tterly)-rhs superintendent and
T the teachers 10 acatis' OF 'em
The only custsm which seem. 10 be unlver
sal, according 10 gentleman who has just
completed trip around the world, is the use
/ OF tobacco In many places he saw the weed
uscd by woman AZ much az by men.
little Indian girl said 10 her teacher:
1--WE have not PRAYED for the poor" Her
teacher replied: "Wcll, you pray for them"
The little girl then said 80 Lord, bless the
poor, snd make them fat II you can"